Look What I Got.

 

I had this one waiting for me when I got to work today. I really only went in the box for the assembly instructions and had a quick at the sprues.

Those mk2 Crusade suits look great.

The mk2 Preator I think will look good no matter which chapter it'll be painted for, I'm sure I'm fairly sure that as of this moment I'm painting them Dark Angels with the green highlights.

The Satanine Terminators... 

I'm going to have to build them before I make a decision, but I'm really looking forward to getting the box home and having a comfy look through the box with a coffee on Saturday. 

The Satanine Preator ; yeah I'm looking forward to doing this one. 

The Satanine Dreadnought. It uses a similar elbow style to the plastic Contemptor, so the. 5mm thick magnets should fit. {I'm at work till tomorrow evening so don't can't check, but I'm sure someone had already got a video uploaded with a magnet guide. 

The turret, one of my game group says his us going together nicely. 

And the accessories sprue that you get 4 of, those lightning claws are going to get used at some point for sure. 

Saturday Plan. 

Note to self, need milk for the coffee.

Friday wash the cafetiere.

Saturday make coffee. 

Unbox Death's Head and get him out.

Unbox Satanine, decide a build plan. Have a look through the book for background. Check the GW Web store and see how much the separate boxes of everything cost, find out how big a squad of Satanine Terminators can actually be.

Drink coffee and eat toast. 

Zero Free Time.

 I've had 1 singular day where I haven't woken up at work since June the 28th, my next waking up in my bed day off is Saturday, even though I'm on call I've put myself down for unavailable on the work time sheet app.

So as you can imagine with zero free time, or getting home mid morning and just being drained I've just not had time to get anything done, as I've mostly napped and cooked when I have had the rare wake up at work day. The bad thing is it doesn't get better for the next 2 weeks.

What have I done hobby wise?

Very little.

I've picked up one of the Forge World Chaplin dreadnoughts that has been stripped and is unassembled, which I think is a bonus.

And after checking my save the pennies account topped £175, I had enough to buy Satanine from my local 3rd party store, and was on the verge of ordering it when the mate I bought the dread off shared a screen shot of the Satanine box for £126 plus change. I've got that being delivered to work tomorrow. I can't see myself getting a massive amount done before my week off at the end of the month, what with mornings off and waking up at work.

So plan A. Get a couple of the Space Wolf Terminators built to use as  test pieces for painting the Satanine Preator, at least build the Preator before the week off.

Fingers crossed I can get some work done on the 2 major conversions I have under way. 

Dane Axe It Is

 The Dane Axe won the vote as the lightning claws got 1 and the axe got 5. So there's something different to work with for Björn. 

Also, after 2 refunds, one stolen off my door step and one lost in the post office I finally got hold of Death's Head action figure and totally buggered the re sell value by taking it out of the box to get a better look at it. The printed background in the box could be handy as well. So far it's just photoshopped but will try something on Monday 

Question

 Closing the question tomorrow pm {20/07/25} 

Dane axe? 

Or lightning claws? 

Monthly Vow 12th of June To The 12th of July

 And it started so promisingly. In my defence I haven't had an actual day off since my last post, and my next day off is next Saturday which will mostly be catching up with the cleaning that hasn't been done.

Next month.

Hoping to get a few more days off for starters.

Finish Marbas.

Check which of the Space Wolf Terminator Arms fit best on the the latest Bjorn. 

There's a 30k Dark Angel praetor to paint to finish off the Inner Circle Companions. 

With a nebulous plan to get the Satanine box and get all that done, which given the free time I've had this month is a rest of the year project. 

Review Time. 

So little progress. The only thing I managed to do last week was give it a left hand, in a lucky break I found the Dark Angels upgrade sprue and clipped the tilt shield with the sword off, and blu tacked it on the hand as a knuckle duster.

Saturday my first day off in 3 weeks once I've hoovered and mopped I'm planning on trying arms for Björn, there's a 2 handed great axe, an axe and shield and the lightning claws to try.

There's this guy for the Inner Circle Companions, and lastly there's the elephant in the room, Satanine. I've just checked my save the pennies account and I have enough the box from my local 3rd party store, I did say I'd let him know by the weekend if I was going to order a copy and I have enough cash. I'll post on Friday if I've made my mind up. 

Björn The Plans For The Next One.

So these guys are on order with my local shop. There is a the axe and shield option and the twin lightening claws arms are the 2 options I'm thinking trying on the Bjorn Chaos dread. 

If I can't decide I will be asking which looks better on this guy. 

 

So onto the other minis in the box.

 

Plan A for now is to make sure I have everything I need to paint those 5 Terminators in the Wayne England Thousand Sons colours and get some practice in as it has been a couple years since I last painted one. 

If memory serves me correctly the process was;

Storm host silver base coat on the body, I can't remember now if it was palid wytch flesh or Deepkin Flesh wash over the sliver for the metallic white look. 

Yellow Shoulder Pad was avaland sunset base, orange wash, yeril yellow, into flash git yellow. 

Blue Shoulder Pad was a dark blue, don't remember the shade, a draken hold blue wash and then blend up to temple guard or thousand Sons blue depending on how I feel. 

Trim will be retribution armour gold with reikland flesh wash, highlighted in the usual way. 

I'm saying this is from memory as I did save it in a note pad app, but the screen went on the phone I have it saved on, so it's lost unless I put it down on paper in a note pad somewhere. 

Doesn't Look Like Much

 

Friday I spent in the cinema watching 28 years later and F1 so no hobby work was done. 

Yesterday I started working on Marbas again. I filed the symbol down by about half to get the flex and movement to allow it to fit on the shoulder pad.

I also add some of the other bits to knees and the other shoulder 

And I was able to pick this guy up for the number 6 slot in my Inner Circle Companions squad.